Some of you may know The Disco Biscuits as the jam band/electronic rock outfit that had themselves better defended on Philebrity that one time than perhaps any other local band, and others among you, of course, recognize the “Bisco” lifestyle as the only true path to enlightenment. But to a group of kids who go [...]

· Not only did some people go to Aramingo Diner and NOT GET SHOT, but also, an anonymous couple started a wave of Christmas cheer by paying the tabs of strangers, which went on throughout all the night until the Baby Jesus wandered in at midnight, hella stoned and wearing a DeSean Jackson jersey, and [...]

· One of our native Allentonian readers writes:
Today, Mr. Obama is kicking off his “main street tour” in my hometown of Allentown, Pennsylvania… or as I refer to it as: THE 610 STRUGGLE. His mission, to make sure stimulus money goes to the nation’s cities, where the strain of joblessness is most severe. The [...]

Mayor Nutter announced the launching of RecycleBank in North Philly this afternoon. It will be rolling out across the city throughout next year and will incentivize recycling by awarding participants with points that convert into cold hard cash savings at local and national businesses. The model being used in Philly differs slightly from the one [...]

Hey, you know what’s awesome? THE SUN. And over in Greece, there’s this company called HelioSphera that makes loads and loads of solar panels, which take the awesomeness of the sun and turn it into ENERGY, which is also awesome. And now, guess what: HelioSphera is coming to Philadelphia, where they’ll have a manufacturing facility [...]

· Has Mayor Michael Nutter been weathering shitstorm after shitstorm, just sitting on the fact that he’s about to roll out millions in ObamaCash? On the heels of recent successes like the Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Pilot Program and Creative Industry Workforce Grants, say hello to another $30 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [...]

Philadelphia’s Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Pilot Program — which forces lenders and defaulted homeowners to sit at a city-mediated table before forcing people’s homes into a Sheriff’s Sale — has gotten some good press before, but with this page A1 story in today’s New York Times, it has hit the good-news motherlode. (We’re taking bets [...]

· Awesome upshot of the SEPTA strike, which thus far has been about as anti-Good Motherfucking News as you can get: Based on counts conducted by the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia yesterday, Day Two of the SEPTA strike saw a 38% increase in bicyclists during rush hour. What! That’s awesome! And there’s more: There [...]

· Hey, remember a few weeks back when it rained for like two whole years straight through? We all went batty. In years to come, though, the Philadelphia Water Department will take all of that crazy rain via “green capture,” thereby taking stormwater and running it off to a variety of end purposes (like green [...]

The local ABC affiliate in Los Angeles on Wednesday ran this story a good samaritan who, rather bravely, jumped into the fiery car wreck at right, to successfully rescue a little girl before the car had a chance to fully explode. Pretty cool, right? Well, Philebrity is proud to tell you that the hero was [...]

It’s like this: The motorists of Philadelphia (and the motorists who come here from New Jersey) simply cannot be trusted. Even when their superego is trying like hell to drive around you and be all nice and Whole Foods about it, their ids — those raging, bloodthirsty, pigfucking ids — want to make fruit smoothies [...]

The state of New Jersey is taking some seriously foolish measures to rid their landscape of avian colonies, but the 600 block of Pierce Street in South Philly, according to this pretty great City Paper piece, has shown how fully embracing birds can successfully spruce up a neighborhood, adding character and presumably an ample supply [...]

With many of the big players in the US economy on the sidelines at the moment suffering from bouts of mortgage meltdown (fever), liquidation (diarrhea), or bankruptcy (coma), now seems like a good time to focus on the lil’ guys. Ten smaller businesses are participating in what is being called a “green business incubator” at [...]

· If you’ve ever had the bad fortune to have a family member seriously injured — or suffered from same yourself — hopefully, you’ve also had the good fortune to do your rehab at Magee Rehabilitation. Magee does amazing work, and their success stories walk among us daily, including our pal Brian Hickey, whose amazing [...]

· At noon today, The Dude will announce the first of 500 Big Belly solar-powered litter baskets in Center City, pictured at right in all of their “What-the-hell-is-that-thing” glory. But trust us, this is good news:
[...] solar-powered litter baskets are cost effective and more efficient than our traditional litter baskets. They will reduce overflowing, [...]

· Philly Spells Writing Center has approached Philadelphia with a mission. That mission is to instill our city’s youth a lifelong love of literacy. Inspired by the Dave Eggers’s 826 model of teaching, Spells hopes “to get 6 to 18 year olds excited about creative and expository forms of writing.”
The idea is as simple [...]

This just in from the White House, who apparently talk to bloggers on the regular now:
Vice President Joe Biden announced today that the Obama Administration will make $68,305,855 available to Pennsylvania for crucial health and human services programs that help provide care for children and prevent disease. Pennsylvania will receive $60,416,767 in Recovery Act funding [...]

File this one under Good News for sure: Though the City is currently embroiled in a massive budget crisis, we’ve lost more police than we ever thought we would, we’re hemorrhagging jobs left and right, and on and on, someone still loves you, Philadelphia. His name is Andrew Cohen, and he writes for the Ottawa [...]

File this one under decidedly Good News: The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance has just released the results of its first-ever Cultural Engagement Index, and it reveals Philly to be a vibrant, creative, culturally engaged city, despite, you know, everything else we know about Philadelphia. But the CEI is definitive evidence of our better nature: Based [...]

Steal this graphic, brah.
· Heaving sighs of relief are going out all over the area today, and not just because the Philebrity Art Department finally got us a “Good News” graphic we can get behind. The Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative (PCMI) at the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage just announced they’re handing out a [...]